Re: [newbie-it] Installazione nuovo utente
Nicola e Sandro wrote: Buona sera a tutta la Ml, vorrei chiedere se qualcuno è riuscito a terminare il setup iniziale proposto da Mandrake (8.1), io non riesco ad andare oltre la configurazione della posta e di internet, in quanto una volta configurato internet mi rispedisce nella schermata della posta, che a sua volta quando premo next mi spedisce nella configurazione internet. Dove stà l'inghippo? A cosa serve quel setup? E' possibile rilanciarlo a mano? Adesso non ricordo esattamente (è passato un po' di tempo da quando l'ho installata) però mi sembra che ci sia un pulsante annulla o una cosa del genere. Se lo premi il processo prosegue senza problemi. Poi puoi configurare gli account di posta più tardi. Ciao Il drakfirsttime della mandrake fa acqua da tutte le parti. Appena ti si apre la finestra ti conviene mandarlo a quel paese premendo cancel; potrai configurare il tuo ambiente di lavoro con calma e anche con più cognizione di causa procedendo man mano che utilizzi il sistema. Se farai in futuro un'altra installazione io al tuo posto lo deselezionerei dalla lista delle singole voci installabili. Puoi comunque disinstallarlo anche ora usando il software manager cercando tra gli installati first. -- syd
[newbie-it] Kernel e boot
Ho appena compilato il kernel 2.5.2 (quello generico, non della mdk), e sono riuscito ad ottimizzarlo per il mio sistema. L'unico inconveniente è che quando viene caricato il SO mi segnala molti messaggi con la scritta FALLITO in rosso. Domanda: come si possono eliminare? Come faccio a dire al SO cosa caricarmi e cosa trascurare? Spero di essermi spiegato. Ciao, Pollo.
[newbie-it] Configurazione di Apache
Ciao a tutta la ML, Vi chiedo scusa se vi disturbo con una richiesta che a qualcuno potrà suonare come invadente, ma volevo sapere se vi è mai capitato di configurare apache su un pc. Mi spiego meglio: Vorrei mettere sul mio pc un sito che attualmente è ospitato da Tiscali. Naturalmente ho richiesto una linea ADSL per lasciare il mio buon pc con linux sempre connesso. Premesso che uso Mandrake 8.1 e che ho già riscontrato tramite il comando http:\\localhost una pronta risposta, vi chiedo cosa devo fare ? Come devo impostare il mitico file httpd.conf ??? Ho notato che esiste nella directory var una subdirectory apache-mm... Attendo vs notizie e grazie ancora !!! -- Fabrizio Torrisi Linux Mandrake User E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie-it] Gnome Toaster
salve a tutti Ho provato a fare una semplicissima masterizazione con Gnome Toaster e non ho avuto nessun risultato,riportandomi come errore quanto segue: Child exited unexpectedly. CD recording process finished. Recording 39412464 bytes to CD couldn't run client: Permission denied Tenete presente che il masterizatore è gia visto come scd0. Che c'è che non funge? grazie per le eventuali risposte. Ciao , Tom
[newbie-it] emulazione scsi
Salve a tutti ho intenzione di masterizzare il primo cd con linux...e leggendo alcuni HOWTO per configuare il sistema alla masterizazione ho visto che devo cambiare alcune cose...ma non essendo ancora molto pratico chiedo cosiglio a voi. Tanto per iniziare ho notato che il masterizatore(Yamaha CRW2100E)è gia impostato come scd0 (penso sia stato fatto in automatico,io non ho messo mano) Ora per far emulare pure il lettore hdc che devo fare? Come prima cosa dovrei modificae la stringa in grub in una cosa del genere? title linux kernel (hd1,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1 nobiospnp hdd=ide-scsi [hdc=ide-scsi] devfs=mount logicamente senza [ ] Vi chiedo questo xche in tutti gli HOWTO si fanno esempi per lilo e per kernel 2-0/2- Fatto questo dovrebbe essere tutto fatto?(sempre che sia giusto) e poter fare la prima copia al volo? grazie per le eventuali risposte Ciao , Tom
Re: [newbie-it] emulazione scsi
Alle 18:02, sabato 9 marzo 2002, hai scritto: Salve a tutti ...impostato come scd0 (penso sia stato fatto in automatico,io non ho messo mano) Ora per far emulare pure il lettore hdc che devo fare? Ti invio la risposta che ho mandato mercoledì scorso. Allora, per fare ciò devi prima creare un link simbolico (per farlo devi avere i privilegi di root). Premetto che io ho installati entrambe i CD sul secondo canale IDE ed il mio CDR è settato come slave, quindi corrisponde a /dev/hdd link (DevFS) a /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/cd Ma come device SCSI è posto come /dev/scd0 link a /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd perchè primo dispositivo SCSI. Quindi ho creato il link simbolico per il secondo dispositivo SCSI con ln -s /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/cd /dev/scd1 Al riavvio mi sono accorto che il CDR non era più visto come /dev/scd0 ma come /dev/scd1 (infatti è configurato come slave) e quindi il CDROM era diventato /dev/scd1. Allora nel mio /etc/fstab ho modificato così le righe che definiscono i CD /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/scd1 /mnt/cdrom2 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 e poi ho inserito l'pzione hdc=ide-scsi (hdd=ide-scsi era già presente) nel boot-loader. Infine ti dico che per raggiungere tale risultato non ho fatto altro che leggere un articolo apparso su Dev n° 88 e poi ho effettuato alcune prove per capire come muovermi (con Linux basta un pochino di pazienza e alla fine si risolve quasi tutto). ;-P Fammi sapere. -- saluti Giovanni Mazzamati mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Linux Mandrake 8.1 KDE 2.2 user Registred User #183142 Un giorno le macchine riusciranno a risolvere tutti i problemi, ma mai nessuna di esse potrà porne uno. Albert Einstein
Re: [newbie-it] emulazione scsi
Alle 18:02, sabato 9 marzo 2002, hai scritto: Tanto per iniziare ho notato che il masterizatore(Yamaha CRW2100E)è gia impostato come scd0 (penso sia stato fatto in automatico,io non ho messo mano) Ora per far emulare pure il lettore hdc che devo fare? Come prima cosa dovrei modificae la stringa in grub in una cosa del genere? title linux kernel (hd1,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1 nobiospnp hdd=ide-scsi [hdc=ide-scsi] devfs=mount logicamente senza [ ] Sebbene abbia lilo, ritengo che il passaggio in Grub possa essere esatto. Una volta fatto ciò, e riavviato grub, andrei a controllare se l'emulazione è attivata con il comando # cdrecord -scanbus che dovrebbe tornarti l'esatto rilevamento delle due periferiche emulate in scsi; a questo punto attenzione, perchè il lettore potrebbe aver preso possesso di scd0 (presumo una questione di precedenze hdc-hdd - nel mio caso, almeno - ma aspetto motivazioni più fondate); controlla, quindi vai in /etc/fstab e verifica come sono riconosciute le periferiche (sul mio sono cdrom e cdrom2). A questo punto crea il link (o i links, nel caso siano da rifare tutti e due) in /dev con il comando #ln -s /dev/scdx /dev/cdromx con gli x da sostituire con gli identificativi da te rilevati. ..Dovrebbe essere tutto a posto, ora.. Ciao -- - -- Fabio Manunza -- ## n° macchina 140545 ## -
[newbie-it] respawning
salve a tutti, ogni tanto c'è qualche sorpresa senza aver fatto niente per ottenerla. L'ultima è questa (mandrake 8.1): - il pc si avvia col login grafico con la scelta dell'utente. Andava tutto bene. Ora succede che non prende più la modalità grafica e compare la scritta: INIT:Id x respawning too fast: distabled for 5 minutes. Premo ctrl-c, compare il login, entro e batto startx e riprende tutto ok. Però c'è questo inconveniente. Qualcuno sa di che si tratta ? Grazie e ciao, Fer
[newbie-it] Xscreensaver GL
Salve a tutta la ML, a quanto pare non riesco a stare un giorno senza trovare un piccolo problema da proporvi. Oggi ho voluto provare alcuni salvaschermi GL di xscreensaver, e con mia sorpresa non vanno. Premetto che ho una geforce2, e che sotto RH7.1 questo problema non si verifica, e che inoltre usando le librerie MESA i suddetti screensaver funzionano. Vorrei chiedervi se qualcuno si è già imbattuto in questo problema. Vi allego i messaggi che ottengo dal demone xscreensaver. Se devo postare altro, tipo il log di XFREE o il file di configurazione, fatemelo sapere. Messaggi al lancio del Demone xscreensaver: xscreensaver-gl-helper says the GL visual is 0x21 (the default). xscreensaver: initialization of Kerberos passwords failed. xscreensaver: running on display :0.0 xscreensaver: vendor is Mandrake Linux (XFree86 4.1.0, patch level 17mdk), 4010 xscreensaver: useful extensions: xscreensaver: MIT Screen-Saver xscreensaver: Shared Memory xscreensaver: Double-Buffering xscreensaver: Power Management xscreensaver: GLX xscreensaver: XF86 Video-Mode xscreensaver: screen 0 non-mapped depths: 16 xscreensaver: not using server's lame MIT-SCREEN-SAVER extension. xscreensaver: consulting /proc/interrupts for keyboard activity. xscreensaver: using default visual 0x21 (TrueColor, depth: 16, cmap: default) xscreensaver: saver window is 0x1e1. xscreensaver: selecting events on extant windows... done. Messaggi di errore al lancio di salvaschermi GL xscreensaver: DEMO 121 ClientMessage received. xscreensaver: demoing 121 at Sat Mar 9 20:26:45 2002. xscreensaver: grabbing keyboard on 0x53... GrabSuccess. xscreensaver: grabbing mouse on 0x53... GrabSuccess. xscreensaver: limited pid 3454 address space to 50M. xscreensaver: spawning gears -root in pid 3454. gears: couldn't create GL context for visual 0x21. xscreensaver: child pid 3454 (gears) exited abnormally (code 1). xscreensaver: unblanking screen at Sat Mar 9 20:26:48 2002. xscreensaver: ungrabbing mouse (was 0x53). xscreensaver: ungrabbing keyboard (was 0x53). xscreensaver: awaiting idleness. Grazie a tutti!
[newbie] where are lisarc and rlisarc?
OK - I give up! According to the docsI have read, these may be hidden files (thanks to Femme for that :-)) and should be in home/.kde/share/config but I'm blowed ifI can find them. Does this mean that I can therefore simply create my own, or are they likely to be lurking somewhere else? Heather
Re: [newbie] OK New install, probs with virtual Terms
MM Yummy, more info to digest. *watches the IV line drip in the new data to my veins* Thx. ;p As for the ctrl-f12 I haven't looked yet, but I shall when I boot back to it I will let you know. FF Applications Monitoring Process Management 2. From command line use ps to find the ap and killall or kill -s x proc to kill it. Where x=the signal number and proc= the process number that was in ps is Being a real operating system Linux will ensure that all space that any locked program was taking is freed up when you kill it. Read the manual on these for your options i.e. man ps 3. They talk about top as a command line version of kpm. blush Don't know as i haven't used it yet - hey we can't learn all the tools simultaneously /blush. Try man top and see if that is what you want. 4. Like the Xkill icon, as i found out from a recent thread, Ctrl Alt and Esc turns on an Xkill mode with a nice mouse pointer. Manouver with the keyboard arrows if the mouse is frozen. Try it, the same key combination toggles it back off again. Are you happy with all the info on the F12 display? Was yours running ok when you checked it out? The reason i am asking is it is good to hear back when and how a problem was solved. Especially for someone searching the archives in the future. Michael -- RELATIVES!! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] installing rpms
Ya ya, so I'm not out of newbie land yet. Sue me. :) Thx FF Michael wrote: FemmeFatale wrote: Gaim Licq I believe are both hidden directories. So, do thusly: Open Terminal window make sure you're in ~/home/yourdirectory then issue a ls -a command *no quotes ofc* Then you'll see hidden directories. They start with a period. Like so: ./licq Like so: .licq Sorry Michael HTH Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT, I know this is a LM List, but...
Well I don't have much experience with RH or LM but have managed to get a dual boot going with Bootmagic. It works and i'm stupid/adventurous enough to try most or all of what you've written. Thx FF Yes, well my knowledge of Bootmagic could fill a thimble and leave room for your thumb, so I suggest making sure you do not install the RH bootlloader and adapt bootmagic to doing it however. It has been years since I used non-free software. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] gaim - I did it - here's how :-))
- Original Message - From: FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 2:57 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] gaim - I did it - here's how :-)) If what you said or do say, wasn't useful, I'm sure many of us wouldn't post in reply to you. :) Besides, useless ppl don't use linux do they? Just a small bit of humour to tide you over till the next hurdle LOL - better get the next jest ready :-))) Thanks for the encouragement! H Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Running Open Office more directly
On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 16:20, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: Or you can define an alias in your shell rc file. This way you can start openoffice from the command line. For csh the line would go in the .cshrc file in your home directory and it will be: alias soffice /OpenOffice.org641/soffice This way whever you type soffice in a terminal window, Open Office gets started. I tried this, using the .bashrc file in my home directory as follows: # User specific aliases and functions alias soffice ./OpenOffice.org641/soffice But when I try it, I get an error message: bash: soffice: command not found I must be missing something. Regards, Chuck Seedkum On Friday 08 March 2002 09:56 pm, Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas wrote: On 9 Mar 2002, Charles Muller wrote: Using KDE I just made a 'icon' to it. Right click I select something like make new application link and fill in the blanks! Sorry, I don't have the 'correct' steps 'cause I'm not using mdk8.1 in English! Ricardo Castanho I installed OpenOffice 6.41 using the tarball, and it works fine. However, it is slightly inconvenient to use, since each time I have to open the console, change directories to /OpenOffice.org641 and then type ./soffice. Is there a way of simplifying this process? Regards, Chuck Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Charles Muller Toyo Gakuen University Digital Dictionary of Buddhism and CJK-English Dictionary www.acmuller.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] installing rpms
- Original Message - From: FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 2:47 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] installing rpms Gaim Licq I believe are both hidden directories. So, do thusly: Open Terminal window make sure you're in ~/home/yourdirectory then issue a ls -a command *no quotes ofc* AHA - thanks F :-)) I think you may have answered my next question too - I am trying to find the directory home/.kde2 to hunt for LISa - maybe thats why I can't find it! Heather Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] PATH Statement
This may have something to do with my inabilities to run Open Office easily: All the Linux books I have read seem to indicate that the PATH statement should be in my .bashrc file. But none of the .bashrc files on my system have a PATH statement in them. Should I add one? Regards, Chuck -- Charles Muller Toyo Gakuen University Digital Dictionary of Buddhism and CJK-English Dictionary www.acmuller.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] test
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Re: [newbie] PATH Statement
On 09 Mar 2002 19:17:30 +0900 Charles wrote: This may have something to do with my inabilities to run Open Office easily: All the Linux books I have read seem to indicate that the PATH statement should be in my .bashrc file. But none of the .bashrc files on my system have a PATH statement in them. Should I add one? That would not help much in this case. Paul -- Only fools and dead men don't change their minds. Fools won't and dead men can't. -John H. Patterson http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.7.3 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Installing sane plustek scanner driver
Hi Y'all Still trying to get my scanner to work using Mandrake 7.2 and Sane 1.03. Trying to make install the plustek driver, I got the following: [root@graham plustek_driver]# make install mkdir -p /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc install -c -m 644 pt_drv.o /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc /sbin/depmod -a depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/pt_drv.o It means nothing to me. Advice from anyone who has been down this road would be appreciated. -- Graham Watkins For me, morning begins when I realize that the soft warm body curled up next to me is a cat. (Kinky Friedman - Frequent Flyer) Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Running Open Office more directly
On 09 Mar 2002 19:03:08 +0900 Charles wrote: alias soffice /OpenOffice.org641/soffice This way whever you type soffice in a terminal window, Open Office gets started. I tried this, using the .bashrc file in my home directory as follows: # User specific aliases and functions alias soffice ./OpenOffice.org641/soffice Note the . in front of your command. This means it will look in the subdir OpenOffice.org641 in your _current_directory_. Change that and you should be fine. B,t,w, Is there a big difference between 641 and 638? Is it worth the download? Paul -- Only fools and dead men don't change their minds. Fools won't and dead men can't. -John H. Patterson http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.7.3 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kmail question
On Wednesday 06 March 2002 09:35 pm, you wrote: Is there any way of making Kmail check for mail automatically upon starting the program? I don't see a setting anywhere. Is there a setting I missed, or is there maybe some other way of making it do that? Thanks, put -check in the command to start it (either in your menu or link). ex.: kmail -check -caption %c %i %m Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] rpms and OpenOffice.
Ok, I found it and tried it but it does not work here i has been made woth a cooker version of Mandrake, and it's libs and stuff are all advanced. If all goes well, you can probably use the RPM with Mandrake 8.2 ... But I won't promise that :-) I suggest to download the latest binary from openoffice.org, and manually install that. It works at least :-) Do an ./install /net if you want to use it for several users and don't want to install a separate version in each users $HONE. The results below is exactly what I got too, except for the libstdc++3.0. Yeah, it sucks... just keep the rpm and who knows :-) Greetings Ralph Seedkum Aladeem wrote: Ralph, I used the www.rpmfind.net site to search for openoffice. The site kept timing out today. I do not have the URL unfortunately. There was only one site with the i586 rpm out of a total of 4 sites. I do not know what kind of directroy the rpm came from (contrib or not). I just clicked on the file name not knowing where it resided. I followed your advice today and told the KDE Software Manager to search the LM 8.1 CD ISO files too. I got the following error messages this time: rpm -U --replacepkgs /home/rpmdir/openoffice-6.0.41-5mdk.i586.rpm;echo RESULT=$? error: failed dependencies: lpddaemon is needed by openoffice-6.0.41-5mdk libstdc++3.0 = 3.0.4-1mdk is needed by openoffice-6.0.41-5mdk libstdc++.so.3 is needed by openoffice-6.0.41-5mdk RESULT=1 Will the rpm package manager be able to keep track of Open Office the way it is able to keep track of rpm packages if I use this tarball thing you have used? I think Open Office needs Java for the help menus. Do you have help menus? Thanks, Seedkum On Friday 08 March 2002 01:01 pm, Ralph Slooten wrote: Umm, where did you download the rpm's from? I have looked before, but didn't have much luck... What I did was just to download and install the tarball (binary file) from openoffice.org... works fine here, although I think it's built for an i386 and I run an i686 .. so I guess an i586 build probablty would speed up things. What version of Mandrake are you running? If 8.1, gcc3 and others are on the install cd's. ~ What I think you did was to download a file from a contrib ftp directory or not? Well, please give me the URL you used, and I will try it here... and let you know About the j2re and kafee... well, I can't help... I don't like java, and it does not like me. Never got it working here with openoffice.org either :-) Does not matter, it works without. Neither do I know the answer to the unicode Q... sorry about that :-) For what it's worth.. I hope this helps Greetings Ralph [deleted] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Homepage: http://tuxpower.f2g.net/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake memory capacity
still will need to recompile w/Capts. Kirk' Pickard's Kernel (the Enterprise kernel) On Friday 08 March 2002 22:05, you wrote: Try passing an argument on boot through LILO with something like: vmlinuz=mem 2gb ? FF [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know what the limit is for Mandrake's memory capacity. I installed Mandrake 8.1 with 2GB of RAM, were doing a lot of compiling here and it will only recognize 1GB! I was just curious on whether or not it would utilize that other 1GB of RAM. Bryce Johnson (RC)2 Technologies Group Exploration Services Division, Veritas DGC Inc. 9177 E. Mineral Circle Suite 100, Englewood CO, 80112 303-749-7920 (http://www.veritasdgc.com) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cable connection glitch
On Tuesday 05 March 2002 11:56 pm, you wrote: I am using Mandrake 8.0. I just got hooked up to cable. I got an SMC 1211TX ethernet card and an RCA DCM245R modem. I was able to get the snip status: not connected Any help appreciated. Thanks, I had a problem with connecting with 8.0, just got a cable connection 2 weeks ago. In my case it was because I was configured to get my IP address by DHCP and had not installed a DHCP client. I DL'd one from Tucows (dhcpcd-1.3.21-pl2.tar), but I suspect there was one on the CDs. Fred Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Running Open Office more directly
On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 19:58, Paul wrote: B,t,w, Is there a big difference between 641 and 638? Is it worth the download? 641 is my first try with OpenOffice, so I can't give you a comparison--sorry! Chuck Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Charles Muller Toyo Gakuen University Digital Dictionary of Buddhism and CJK-English Dictionary www.acmuller.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Running Open Office more directly
On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 19:58, Paul wrote: Note the . in front of your command. This means it will look in the subdir OpenOffice.org641 in your _current_directory_. Change that and you should be fine. Hmmm. Still doesn't work. I think that I need to do this in .bash_profile instead of .bashrc. Chuck Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Charles Muller Toyo Gakuen University Digital Dictionary of Buddhism and CJK-English Dictionary www.acmuller.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Running Open Office more directly
I am still not able to make OO641 run from my own directory. My .bash_profile file in my own directory looks like this. Any further ideas? - # .bash_profile # Get the aliases and functions if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then . ~/.bashrc fi # User specific environment and startup programs alias soffice /home/chuck/OpenOffice.org641/soffice PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:$HOME/chuck/OpenOffice.org641 export PATH unset USERNAME - -- Charles Muller Toyo Gakuen University Digital Dictionary of Buddhism and CJK-English Dictionary www.acmuller.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Remove
Thanks for getting u r mail into my junk mail list. Why do u ask so many times to remove. I didnt add u , you did it. Please remove u r self. or else live with it. On Sat, 9 Mar 2002 08:32, you wrote: I don't even have mandrake anymore I switched to redhat please remove me the commands to [EMAIL PROTECTED] do not work Please remove me Thanks, Joannet Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Hardware 3D (Voodoo5) ?
Hi, Anyone managed to get hardware 3d out of a voodoo 5500? I have all the required libs etc installed, my X config looks right. (has required modules listed etc) According to the DRI manual i need to get bus mastering enabled, yet the supplied shell script does not work. The dev variables are set correctly. Folows : the shell script i am trying to enable AGP with, lspci readout, glxinfo readout. please dont quote the whole email in your reply :) #!/bin/bash dev=01:00.0 # change as appropriate echo Enabling bus mastering on device $dev setpci -s $dev 4.w=$(printf %x $((0x$(setpci -s $dev 4.w)|4))) dev=00:00.0 echo Enabling bus mastering on host bridge $dev setpci -s $dev 4.w=$(printf %x $((0x$(setpci -s $dev 4.w)|4))) # lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX Host bridge (rev 03 ) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX AGP bridge (rev 03) 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02) 00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) 00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) 00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02) 00:09.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT86C100A [Rhine 10/100] (re v 06) 00:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU1 (rev 06) 00:0c.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! (rev 06) 00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro 215GP (rev 5 c) 00:0e.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20262 (rev 01) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: 3Dfx Interactive, Inc.: Unknown device 0009 ( rev 01) # glxinfo name of display: :0.0 Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2 display: :0 screen: 0 direct rendering: No server glx vendor string: SGI server glx version string: 1.2 server glx extensions: GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context client glx vendor string: SGI client glx version string: 1.2 client glx extensions: GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context GLX extensions: GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context OpenGL vendor string: VA Linux Systems, Inc. OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect OpenGL version string: 1.2 Mesa 3.4.2 OpenGL extensions: GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_blend_color, GL_EXT_blend_minmax, GL_EXT_blend_subtract glu version: 1.1 Mesa 3.4.2 glu extensions: GL_EXT_abgr visual x bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer ms cav id dep cl sp sz l ci b ro r g b a bf th cl r g b a ns b eat -- 0x23 16 tc 0 16 0 r y . 5 6 5 0 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None 0x24 16 tc 0 16 0 r y . 5 6 5 0 0 16 8 16 16 16 0 0 0 None 0x25 16 dc 0 16 0 r y . 5 6 5 0 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None 0x26 16 dc 0 16 0 r y . 5 6 5 0 0 16 8 16 16 16 0 0 0 None # xdpyinfo name of display::0.0 version number:11.0 vendor string:Mandrake Linux (XFree86 4.1.0, patch level 17mdk) vendor release number:4010 XFree86 version: 4.1.0 maximum request size: 4194300 bytes motion buffer size: 256 bitmap unit, bit order, padding:32, LSBFirst, 32 image byte order:LSBFirst number of supported pixmap formats:7 supported pixmap formats: depth 1, bits_per_pixel 1, scanline_pad 32 depth 4, bits_per_pixel 8, scanline_pad 32 depth 8, bits_per_pixel 8, scanline_pad 32 depth 15, bits_per_pixel 16, scanline_pad 32 depth 16, bits_per_pixel 16, scanline_pad 32 depth 24, bits_per_pixel 32, scanline_pad 32 depth 32, bits_per_pixel 32, scanline_pad 32 keycode range:minimum 8, maximum 255 focus: window 0x160001f, revert to Parent number of extensions:27 BIG-REQUESTS DPMS Extended-Visual-Information FontCache GLX LBX MIT-SCREEN-SAVER MIT-SHM MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD RENDER SECURITY SGI-GLX SHAPE SYNC TOG-CUP XC-APPGROUP XC-MISC XFree86-Bigfont XFree86-DGA XFree86-DRI XFree86-Misc XFree86-VidModeExtension XINERAMA XInputExtension XKEYBOARD XTEST XVideo default screen number:0 number of screens:1 screen #0: dimensions:2304x864 pixels (780x293 millimeters) resolution:75x75 dots per inch depths (1):16 root window id:0x3f depth of root window:16 planes number of colormaps:minimum 1, maximum 1 default colormap:0x20 default number of colormap cells:64 preallocated pixels:black 0, white 65535 options:backing-store NO, save-unders NO largest cursor:64x64 current input event mask:0x5a20bd KeyPressMask ButtonPressMask ButtonReleaseMask EnterWindowMask LeaveWindowMask PointerMotionHintMask ButtonMotionMask StructureNotifyMask
Re: [newbie] where are lisarc and rlisarc?
On Saturday 09 March 2002 11:31, you wrote: OK - I give up! According to the docs I have read, these may be hidden files (thanks to Femme for that :-)) and should be in home/.kde/share/config but I'm blowed if I can find them. Does this mean that I can therefore simply create my own, or are they likely to be lurking somewhere else? Heather There's no default config file for lisa for obvious reasons.. There's somthing to start with in /usr/share/apps/lisa/README. Have fun! Cheers, J. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OK New install, probs with virtual Terms
Headbanging works for me too, occasionally =) Sometimes I have caught myself RTFM'ing! Cheers J. On Saturday 09 March 2002 06:37, you wrote: On Friday 08 March 2002 18:32, FemmeFatale opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: *laffs* ya that's me, I can't program but I've managed to fook up every install. *shrugs* I don't mind, cept I don't have enough expertise yet to fix my crashes. So I take the 30 min to reinstall. well i don't know enough either, but i keep banging my head on the wall till it works, :-) right now i am messing with fstab and adding network drives to it. why? i have no idea, i was using komba2 and it worked great to browse shares, but hey when everything is working, you find something to break while trying to make it run better Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Lexmark Printer
Hi Check www.linuxprinting.org if haven't already done that. J. On Saturday 09 March 2002 02:40, you wrote: Hello everyone, I'm having a problem getting the rpm that I downloaded from Lexmark's site to install. I have the Z32 color printer and downloaded the correct rpm. But when trying to install it, there is a stream of errors reported. I'm using Mandrake 8.0. I just thought I'd see if anyone else had that problem, and if they found a solution. Thanks. Keith Lynn Systems Administrator School of Computer and Information Sciences University of South Alabama Mobile, AL 36608 Phone: (251) 460-6390 Fax: (251) 460-7274 Alternate E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.cis.usouthal.edu/~lynn/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Is it Reiser or is it something else ?
Hi All, I Spent last night in an infinit loop of reinstalling LM 8.1 on a new machine, till I dropped asleep!!! here is the full story... Got a new P4 desktop machine with, 256 RAM and a 40G HD drive and had the following intention: make it a dual boot machine ( as simple as that used to be ) I did the following: - The machine originally came with Win98SE on it. - installed Partition Magic 4 (yeah I know they'v reached Ver 7 now ). - partitioned the 40G disk into the following: * shrinked the WIN 98 partition to 3G Fat32 called WIN_C * created a 250 Linus Swap * created a 13G Linux native * some free space * the last 10G of the drive made it a Fat32 WIN_D ( to be used for windows data ) - done with the partitioning, I installed W2K - done with the W2K installation, started installing LM 8.1 - chose expert install, but now i got the idea of using the Reiser file system, and have the /home directory on a sperate patition (for future easy upgrading) So, I deleted the 13G ext2 partition ( that I created in Partition Magic) and created 2 new partitions with the Reiser file sys: first one is: 3G with / mount point, second one is 8G with /home as mount point. , and went on with installation. Installation went fine till the last CD ( 3rd) was done, after the window that says: finished copying files, an error message appered saying: AN ERROR OCCURED, SOME IMPORTANT FILES WAS NOT COPIED, then one saying: CANNOT FIND LHLIST, THIS IS PROBABLY CAUSED BY A BAD OR CORRUPTED CD OR CD DRIVE, CHECK THE CD WITH AN INSTALLED MACHINE WITH : rpm -qpm Mandrake/RPMS... bla bla I was confused what could have gone wrong ?! SO I started the instllation again and changed the / partition to ext2 same thing happend I started it again changing both partitions to ext2...same thing started again and chose not to install 3rd CD guess what ? same error msg ! I know the CD Drive is working fine, and the CD is fine too I used it to install LM on another 3 machines before... CAN anybody tell me what can I do ? I ran out of ideas for the next install I know that was long sorry but my night last night was long too :-) started it again - Hanan AL-Shargi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SB Audigy question
On Friday 08 March 2002 09:48 pm, you wrote: FWIW Jeff, I have an SBLive! and it worked fine on LM8.1. On LM8.0, it works great. Btw, IEEE1394 is Firewire. Its for hooking into something that needs a ton of bandwidth, like video cameras. HTH, Femme Jeff wrote: Anyone got it, Gamer, MP3, or Plat versions? How does it work in Linux? LM 8.1 specifically. I mean both hardware and software. Do the fancy extras packed in really work? ( the Mp3 players, etc) How about the connector box? How about the SB 1394? (I believe that's the part that does the 24bit encoding and other extra features of the audigy) Please let me know, as I am going to ditch my acoustic edge and I want to make sure my preffered upgrade will work. Thanks, Jeff Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Well, I checked creative labs web site and they do not have drivers for Audigy yet. I wondered if maybe anyone ran the Live driver with Audigy and how it would work. Yes, I didn't think of Firewire when it said SB 1394. Kinda through my off...duh Jeff. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Running Open Office more directly
* Charles Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020308 23:53]: I installed OpenOffice 6.41 using the tarball, and it works fine. However, it is slightly inconvenient to use, since each time I have to open the console, change directories to /OpenOffice.org641 and then type ./soffice. Is there a way of simplifying this process? You can put a link in any directory in your path (this could be in addition to placing an icon on your desktop or whatever). Open a terminal and type: echo $PATH This will show you which directories are searched when you type a command, and in which order. The colons are separators. Change to one of those directories ... and if you don't have write privileges, su to root: su And give the root password. Then make the link: ln -s /OpenOffice.org641/program/soffice ooffice You can name it something different if you like. Then from an command line you should be able to type: ooffice Or whatever you called it, and it should load up. We use OpenOffice.org 641C in our junior college lab with Mandrake 8.1, and LTSP 3.0 with very good results. OOo 1.0 will be out in maybe a month, and we're looking forward to that. BTW, OOo 642 is available now, but it is a development build, and NOT the release candidate for OOo 1.0. -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize | /' chetumal.com linux.bz Reg. Linux user #151611 |_/ Network, SQL, Perl, HTML Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SB Audigy question
Ok... I thought someone was gonna set the record straight long before now. The SB Audigy does not have built in support in 8.1. There are drivers available for it from the emu10k1 sourceforge webpage, which are experimental at best. They provide basic audio out, but I'm not sure how much more then that they offer. You can install these drivers in 8.1 if you want, however as far as I understand, the audigy driver has been incorporated into the lastest kernels, and should be in the 8.2 distribution. As for the firewire support, SB1394, it will work fine as it is an independant part of board. (IE: not incoporated into the audio processor). If you need more information feel free to ask. NB (General Lurker) On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 10:31, Jeff wrote: On Friday 08 March 2002 09:48 pm, you wrote: FWIW Jeff, I have an SBLive! and it worked fine on LM8.1. On LM8.0, it works great. Btw, IEEE1394 is Firewire. Its for hooking into something that needs a ton of bandwidth, like video cameras. HTH, Femme Jeff wrote: Anyone got it, Gamer, MP3, or Plat versions? How does it work in Linux? LM 8.1 specifically. I mean both hardware and software. Do the fancy extras packed in really work? ( the Mp3 players, etc) How about the connector box? How about the SB 1394? (I believe that's the part that does the 24bit encoding and other extra features of the audigy) Please let me know, as I am going to ditch my acoustic edge and I want to make sure my preffered upgrade will work. Thanks, Jeff Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Well, I checked creative labs web site and they do not have drivers for Audigy yet. I wondered if maybe anyone ran the Live driver with Audigy and how it would work. Yes, I didn't think of Firewire when it said SB 1394. Kinda through my off...duh Jeff. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Kivio Stencils?
Heyo, I'm wondering where I can get ahold of FREE stencil sets for kivio. The one set that it comes with is rather... weak. I'm trying to complete a school project and I don't want to spend any money to get the stencil sets from the kompany. If anyone knows where I can download free kivio stencils it would be greatly appreciated. NB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] classes.zip not found in ICQ Java installation.
I am trying to install an ICQ Java version on my Mandrake 8.1. in ICQJava/install: JAVA_CLASSES=$JAVA_HOME/lib/classes.zip And ./install prompts Invalid JAVA_CLASSES: file classes.zip not found I don't have a classes.zip in my j2re1.4.0/lib directory. What should I do? Wei Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Running Open Office more directly
On Saturday 09 March 2002 09:01 am, you wrote: I am still not able to make OO641 run from my own directory. My .bash_profile file in my own directory looks like this. Any further ideas? - # .bash_profile # Get the aliases and functions if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then . ~/.bashrc fi # User specific environment and startup programs alias soffice /home/chuck/OpenOffice.org641/soffice PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:$HOME/chuck/OpenOffice.org641 export PATH unset USERNAME - run source ~/.bash_profile to update your profile, else logout login -- Gerald Waugh Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Is it Reiser or is it something else ?
can't help much, but i can say i have seen that error on 3 different linux installs, 2 of them the first cd was bad and i had to download it again, the last, one of the RAM chips was bad. windows didn't notice untill it had run several hours and then it crashed hard, linux noticed early in the install. there is a memory check you can run, but i do not recall the command. you can also try installing with various RAM removed and see if it helps. sorry that isn't much help. On Saturday 09 March 2002 07:41, Hanan Shargi opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: Installation went fine till the last CD ( 3rd) was done, after the window that says: finished copying files, an error message appered saying: AN ERROR OCCURED, SOME IMPORTANT FILES WAS NOT COPIED, then one saying: CANNOT FIND LHLIST, THIS IS PROBABLY CAUSED BY A BAD OR CORRUPTED CD OR CD DRIVE, CHECK THE CD WITH AN INSTALLED MACHINE WITH : rpm -qpm Mandrake/RPMS... bla bla -- If someone tells you they know the truth, listen carefully. If they tell you they know the only truth, run for your life. shane http://shentzu.home.mindspring.com/ Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 http://dmoz.org/ cause humans do it better! Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re:[newbie] Is it Reiser or is it somthing else
Thank you shane,, this memory check is it on windows ? I suppose it must be on windows ? since linux is not installed yet if you can give me a hint where is this utility I can go and look for it ( BIOS , DOS ?? ) - Hanan AL-Shargi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Athalon 1700+ running on Dragon Plus MB
On Friday 08 March 2002 09:02 pm, you wrote: Thanks to all who replied, I have decided that since the system is runing so good. and I have much more on my todo list than I will ever get done in one lifetime, I am going to leave it alone. Again, thanks to all Gerald Fired up my Dragon Plus w/1900 60G eide drive with 8.2 Beta 4 yesterday. I did almost nothing but watch while Mandrake did it all. Set up my internet connection thru my router, picked monitor, and basically left me with nothing to break. Ho Hum Haven't tried the network with the other three boxes yet though..Maybe still a small chance for the usual frustration. Last year I couldn't pronounce Linux. Now the system is so automated, I don't have to if I don't want to. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Athalon 1700+ running on Dragon Plus MB
From: Gerald Waugh This MB has no jumpers, everything is setup in the setup screens. Well the MB has a 266 Mhz FSB, but I guess that when the bus speed is set to 133 the DDR RAM bus is running at 266??? the overcloking feature only affects the FSB (Front Side Bus) it goes up in 1 mhz increments, but the max is 233. Now in the BIOS Setup it has CPU Ratio Setup with options of 6.0X, 6.5X, 7.0X, 8.0X, 9.0X, 9.5X, 10.0X, 10.5X, 11.0X, 11.5X, 12.0X, 13.0X, 14.0X, and AUTO Mine is currently set on AUTO But it may be beneficial to set it to 10.5 ??? maybe auto is 10.5 but I don't know While the MoBo has settings to allow overclocking, your proc is Multiplier Locked, meaning you cannot change the multiplier without physical changes to the proc. All Athlon class, Pentium III, IV's are this way standard. Celerons and Durons may be able to have the multiplier changed, although I am not sure if they still can. The FSB at 266 is a dual pumped 133, so 233( not that you could run that high without radical cooling on everything, not just the proc) would be 466 dual pumped. HTH Jeff Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re:[newbie] Is it Reiser or is it somthing else
no i believe there is actually a memory check command you can use from the initial boot cd if simply change to text and know the command. i only recall it in assing but it may have been on this list, so a look in the archives may may find it. On Saturday 09 March 2002 08:58, Hanan Shargi opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: Thank you shane,, this memory check is it on windows ? I suppose it must be on windows ? since linux is not installed yet if you can give me a hint where is this utility I can go and look for it ( BIOS , DOS ?? ) - Hanan AL-Shargi -- Enter any 11-digit prime number to continue... shane http://shentzu.home.mindspring.com/ Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 http://dmoz.org/ cause humans do it better! Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] cdrom install
Hi guys, I got Mandrake 8.1 installed, (and what a fun chore that was). It recognizes my CDROMs (1 regular, 1 CDRW) and floppy drive, but when I try to use them to install new packages it just keeps opening the disk tray and asking for the CD. (Yes, I put the CD it asked for in the tray. hahahaha) Any ideas? Please keep in mind I am working in Linux under the K. I. S. S. principle, and that is being kind. If it matters they are supermounted. Thanks, Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] where are lisarc and rlisarc?
Since Lisa has to be configured in kde control Centre as root, then you should be looking in /root/.kde/share/config/lisarc for the file it generates. derek On Saturday 09 March 2002 14:15, Jussi Aalto wrote: On Saturday 09 March 2002 11:31, you wrote: OK - I give up! According to the docs I have read, these may be hidden files (thanks to Femme for that :-)) and should be in home/.kde/share/config but I'm blowed if I can find them. Does this mean that I can therefore simply create my own, or are they likely to be lurking somewhere else? Heather There's no default config file for lisa for obvious reasons.. There's somthing to start with in /usr/share/apps/lisa/README. Have fun! Cheers, J. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re:[newbie] Is it Reiser or is it somthing else
On Saturday 09 March 2002 11:15, you wrote: no i believe there is actually a memory check command you can use from the initial boot cd if simply change to text and know the command. i only recall it in assing but it may have been on this list, so a look in the archives may may find it. On Saturday 09 March 2002 08:58, Hanan Shargi opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: Thank you shane,, this memory check is it on windows ? I suppose it must be on windows ? since linux is not installed yet if you can give me a hint where is this utility I can go and look for it ( BIOS , DOS ?? ) - Hanan AL-Shargi Look for memtest86 or memtester on the CDs the Second one IIRC. It is a DOS program I think and runs from a floppy at boot up if you want it to. Or if need be do a search on google and there is a free download out there. HTH -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cdrom install
On Saturday 09 March 2002 11:21, you wrote: Hi guys, I got Mandrake 8.1 installed, (and what a fun chore that was). It recognizes my CDROMs (1 regular, 1 CDRW) and floppy drive, but when I try to use them to install new packages it just keeps opening the disk tray and asking for the CD. (Yes, I put the CD it asked for in the tray. hahahaha) Any ideas? Please keep in mind I am working in Linux under the K. I. S. S. principle, and that is being kind. If it matters they are supermounted. Thanks, Mike Supermount does not work well in 8.1 so try right clicking on the icon and choose mount or if it says unmount click that and then go back and click on mount and see if the cd doesn't open. If not put the pointer on an empty place on the desktop and right click. From the box choose create newcdrom device and then in the box that opens there click on the device tap and then click on the down arrow and choose your cdrom device listed there then click on OK. A new icon will be created, you can make another for your cdrw and then delete the old icon. Hope I was reasonably lucid in these directions. Come back to the list if I wasn't and we will try to do better. : ) HTH -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Is it Reisre or is it something else ?
I found the msg you reffered to in the archives and said something about this memtest86 rpm on the second CD, yet I couldnt figure out how to make this rpm run from a floppy ():-) ?!? shall I copy it to a floppy and use this floppy to boot up the machine ? or what :) many thanks. - Hanan AL-Shargi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Running Open Office more directly
It will not work the way you have it. You need an absolute path like my example, not a relative path. Also, my example was for .cshrc. I am not sure about the .bashrc equivalent. You could also append the absolute path to your PATH environment variable instead of using an alias. On Saturday 09 March 2002 02:03 am, Charles Muller wrote: On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 16:20, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: Or you can define an alias in your shell rc file. This way you can start openoffice from the command line. For csh the line would go in the .cshrc file in your home directory and it will be: alias soffice /OpenOffice.org641/soffice This way whever you type soffice in a terminal window, Open Office gets started. I tried this, using the .bashrc file in my home directory as follows: # User specific aliases and functions alias soffice ./OpenOffice.org641/soffice But when I try it, I get an error message: bash: soffice: command not found I must be missing something. Regards, Chuck Seedkum On Friday 08 March 2002 09:56 pm, Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas wrote: On 9 Mar 2002, Charles Muller wrote: Using KDE I just made a 'icon' to it. Right click I select something like make new application link and fill in the blanks! Sorry, I don't have the 'correct' steps 'cause I'm not using mdk8.1 in English! Ricardo Castanho I installed OpenOffice 6.41 using the tarball, and it works fine. However, it is slightly inconvenient to use, since each time I have to open the console, change directories to /OpenOffice.org641 and then type ./soffice. Is there a way of simplifying this process? Regards, Chuck Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Is it Reisre or is it something else ?
On Saturday 09 March 2002 11:58, you wrote: I found the msg you reffered to in the archives and said something about this memtest86 rpm on the second CD, yet I couldnt figure out how to make this rpm run from a floppy ():-) ?!? shall I copy it to a floppy and use this floppy to boot up the machine ? or what :) many thanks. - Hanan AL-Shargi Are you in windows or linux ? Is it dual boot? If so you can install the memtest prog in linux and run it from a console without a window manager running (single user mode I think it's called) Or what I meant was to copy the program to a floppy and then boot the machine with the bios set to boot floppy drive first. It has been a long time since I used it so you may have to experiment to find the right way to do it. Unless someone on the list who knows better can jump in here. The readme is on my system here: /usr/share/doc/memtest86-2.7/READMECheck on yours or the cds and see what you can find out...HTH -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how to create a logout message?
On Sat, 9 Mar 2002 22:29:33 +0100 Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 9 Mar 2002 16:14:26 -0500 Todd wrote: I have edited the file /etc/profile so that users get a message when logging in. What file would I edit so that all users receive a bye-bye message when they log out? I can do it per individual user, but is there a universal file like /etc/profile? Try ~/.bash_logout That only does it for root, not other users. Todd -- Todd Slater I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays, and have things arranged for them, that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas. (Agatha Christie) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PATH Statement
dfox wrote: This is a multi-part message in MIME format... =_1015668631-29535-331 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This may have something to do with my inabilities to run Open Office easily: All the Linux books I have read seem to indicate that the PATH Open Ofice is usually installed outside PATH, typically in /opt, but yes, it may not be in your PATH. There should be a private Open Office directory in yyuor home directory, and you can make a private 'bin' directory and add that to your PATH. It may already be set up to add /home/yourusername/bin as default anyway. Usually, the default PATH is set as part of the startup routine, but you should have a PATH in your .bashrc if you want to add or remove directories to search. By the way, each user (or process, actually) has their own copy of PATH, and can differ. It's not like Windows or DOS where it's system-wide. Charles, in my setup the last bits of the default PATH are added towards the bottom of /etc/profile during the startup. To read the default PATH comment out any additions to it in your .bashrc. Start a new bash shell or type source .bashrc then type echo $PATH. -- I have to convince you, or at least snow you ... -- Prof. Romas Aleliunas, CS 435 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie]
Hello, my name is Ilya. Can you tell me where to find AVI-player and RAR-archiver for Linux? Why does my computer hangs-up while I am using Universe and Cannonsmash (AMD-400, Ati Rage-128 Fury Pro Xpert (32MB), 64RAM, Mandrake 8.0). Why I cant install Linux parallel with WinNT (XP) it displays error due to kernel (...kill kernel...). How can I execute programs made for Windows? Thank you Ily@
Re: [newbie] rpms and OpenOffice.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Well, no, but you can always just delete the folder where it is installed :-) In my case /usr/share/openoffice ... the shortcuts where it is installed will be added to your local install directory (for each user about 3 MB's in their $HOME somewhere...). There are no other shortcuts or files installed anywhere else. Hope this helps, Ralph Seedkum Aladeem wrote: | Does it also come with an uninstall utility? | | Thanks, | | Seedkum - -- Homepage: http://tuxpower.f2g.net/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8ip/4Fe3pHw9jp3oRAj5WAJ0TxrGViwPoC0Q15KObCYdRJqz/5ACfeA2w w8yZamwTuPQARvKP8SaBaWo= =d8Kl -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] seeing windows chapter 2 :-)) (bit for Costin)
Hi all (and hope Costin gets this too :-)) I am half way there, with only one hurdle to go! I have just looged in as root, found the lisa and reslisa config files and configured them correctly, thanks to http://lisa-home.sourceforge.net/and the sample configs there. However, I have one final problem. I can log in and see all my windows shares as root, but its a different story when logged in as username. Clicking on network in the home dir tells me to configure LAN browsing using control center. Going to control center tells me that to configure lisa I must be root! ButI have already configured it as root and it is working!!! Why am I stuck in this loop? I have tried copying and pasting both config files into the appropriate place in my username home directory, but that doesn't work. Please could someone help me finish the circle? Costin - I had the same error message as you, but used the simplest of the config files on the web site above and it solved the problem (as root anyway). Hope this helps. Thanx Heather
Re: [newbie] Is it Reiser or is it somthing else
On Saturday 09 March 2002 01:48 pm, dfox wrote: The utility is calleed memtest86, so google for it. I think there is a disk image on the Mandrake CD but I'm not sure. If y'all have ML 8.x to 8.2, a memtest86-??mdk..rpm is on your Cd's. If you install this rpm, it'll add memtest86 as a boot option. I've had problems usin it this way tho. It's also much better to test hardware without loading your OS/file systems. Specially Linux/ext2, and any M$ Windoze product. File system corruption and/or Winblows registry corruption can occur. So, however you get memtest86, I'd advise copying it to a floppy and booting that, rather than booting to it on your harddrive from lilo. The tar.gz version has an 'installer' to do this for you, just read the doc. Mandrake's rpm will put a memtest...bin file in /boot, edit and run lilo to add it as a boot option. You can copy that or any other memtest.bin to a floppy by doin this in a term dd if=memtest-2.8.bin of=/dev/fd0 (this assumes you're in the dir where you have memtest.bin, and that your floppy is fd0 ) OTOH, 'mprime -m, 17' (Prime95's torture test) is a much better cpu/cache/ram tester, but it still won't prove your hardware as well as Cpuburn will http://users.ev1.net/~redelm/ Any software test of ram/memory is not entirely feasible. Only very expensive hardware test beds, that're specific to the ram being tested are accurate viable tests. Cpuburn will, like most other software testers, stress check the cpu/cache/ram all at once. Faulty systems can get by memtest86 fairly easily, even the Prime95/mprime torture test won't find all difficiencies ... but if Cpuburn doesn't find 'em, they're probly aren't any, ie 'bulletproof'. That's why I advise testing cpu/cache/ram from a memtest86 floppy first, keeping your OS/filesystem offline. If all's well, then try mprime's torture test. If you pass that, go for Cpuburn. Until a system passes Cpuburn, any problems, present or future, could be more likely be hardware than software, or at least you'll never really know or is it somthing else ; -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] rpms and OpenOffice.
Ralph, You mentioned: Do an ./install /net if you want to use it for several users and don't want to install a separate version in each users $HONE. I looked at the install man pages and there was no mention of the /net switch. The man page said it was a file copy utility, all be it a more sophisticated one. The one I have is version 4.1. What is this install program you have in mind? I did the down load, the unzip, the untar and I am ready for the next step. Thanx, Seedkum On Saturday 09 March 2002 03:51 pm, Ralph Slooten wrote: Well, no, but you can always just delete the folder where it is installed :-) In my case /usr/share/openoffice ... the shortcuts where it is installed will be added to your local install directory (for each user about 3 MB's in their $HOME somewhere...). There are no other shortcuts or files installed anywhere else. Hope this helps, Ralph Seedkum Aladeem wrote: | Does it also come with an uninstall utility? | | Thanks, | | Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Is it Reiser or is it something else ?
Hey Tom, That sure was a heavy weight reply ... I'm glad some of you experts do look at our newbie list from time to time ;) But that warning on http://users.ev1/ sure is scary,,, I dont think i wanna go ahead and stress my new system's cpu :) and by the way while I was waiting for replies about my problem I tried installing LM 7.2 and it worked just fine,,, it didn't complain about anything !!! so I guess its not a memory problem after all ?? or could it be that 7.2 was fooled as well ??!! but I'm glad I ( and some folks here ) got to know about some really interesting SW out there and we got some very informative replies from some gurus :) Thanks FOLKS :-) - Hanan AL-Shargi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Key correspondent to degree celsius characters ]}º
Please let us know if you find out! I've been using the us-intl keyboard for about a year (for ácçêñts), and I never knew about right alt+shift. Thanks! I'm so psyched! ¡Now I have the exclamation point I've always wanted! Do you know how to get an upside down question mark? - Paul Rodríguez On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 11:12, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Hi, I am using a us-intl keyboard, i would like to be surprized and find out how to put the Celsius circle in my emails. I would assume right alt + shift + ?? = degrees celsius sign. Is there perhaps an internet page that lists all these keyboard shortcuts given your make of keyboard? Appreciated _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]
îÅ×ÉÎÎÙÊ ÷ÁÎÑ wrote: Hello, my name is Ilya. Can you tell me where to find AVI-player and RAR- archiver for Linux? Why does my computer hangs-up while I am using Universe and Cannonsmash (AMD-400, Ati Rage-128 Fury Pro Xpert (32MB), 64RAM, Mandrake 8.0). Why I can't install Linux parallel with WinNT (XP) it displays error due to kernel (...kill kernel...). How can I execute programs made for Windows? Thank you Ily AVI-player is unavailable but several others will play avi files. RAR for linux is available from http://www.rarsoft.com/download.htm Known bugs for the ATI Video card driver. Unfortunately whoever is maintaining them hasn't had time to fix. The latest drivers should be available at www.XFree.org when a fix is available. You can install dual-boot with windows, but you have to set up your disk to make room for linux to install. Microsoft has kept the NTFS very secret and has no less than three mutually incompatiuble versions of it (NT4, Win2K, and XP). We can read all 3 and experimentally write only the NT4. If you want linux to make room for itself, use the FAT32 filesystem on your windows. If you use the FAT32 filesystem then wine, codeweavers wine, and transgaming winex will run most but not all windows programs. They run them by simulating the windows APIs (application programming interfaces) and the Microsoft software uses special, secret APIs that Microsoft has never released for such programs as Office, Publisher, MSIE and so on. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] rpms and OpenOffice.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OK, You downloaded and unpacked the tar.gz file... there should be several files in the unzipped folder, or not? Well, there is a setup file... sorry, not install... my appologies. Try a ./setup /net and the rest should be pretty straight forward. I canot remember if the /net funtion is well documented, but it exists from StarOffice, and it still used in the OopenOffice.org. You will have to install this as root. One thing I must add... I had a big problem in the beginning where I could not read the install screen. I found out that this had to do with Abiword (some arial font that was contained in it), and uninstalling it first fixed everything :-) Ok, once installed, let's say in /usr/share/openoffice.org641 (I have no idea what 4.1 version you are referring to?), as a normal user type /usr/share/openoffice.org641/setup and it should install several files into your home directory. There are needed for your personal settings. In the folder created there are shortcuts to openoffice and so on. I think the rest is pretty straight forward. The version I use is : http://sf1.mirror.openoffice.org/641c/install641C_linux_intel.tar.gz but others should work too. Greetings Ralph Seedkum Aladeem wrote: | Ralph, | | You mentioned: | | Do an ./install /net if you want to use it for several users and don't | want to install a separate version in each users $HONE. | | I looked at the install man pages and there was no mention of the /net | switch. The man page said it was a file copy utility, all be it a more | sophisticated one. The one I have is version 4.1. What is this install | program you have in mind? | | I did the down load, the unzip, the untar and I am ready for the next step. | | Thanx, | | Seedkum | | On Saturday 09 March 2002 03:51 pm, Ralph Slooten wrote: | |Well, no, but you can always just delete the folder where it is |installed :-) In my case /usr/share/openoffice ... the shortcuts where |it is installed will be added to your local install directory (for each |user about 3 MB's in their $HOME somewhere...). There are no other |shortcuts or files installed anywhere else. | |Hope this helps, | |Ralph | |Seedkum Aladeem wrote: || Does it also come with an uninstall utility? || || Thanks, || || Seedkum | | | | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com | - -- Homepage: http://tuxpower.f2g.net/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8irqlFe3pHw9jp3oRAnMyAJ4hZO2xvVtit/vhxqDWNleRMXnk1gCZAWgM kdxDwfN8YjHY2Q5+C3kV7o0= =+80k -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Running Open Office more directly
Charles Muller wrote: I installed OpenOffice 6.41 using the tarball, and it works fine. However, it is slightly inconvenient to use, since each time I have to open the console, change directories to /OpenOffice.org641 and then type ./soffice. Is there a way of simplifying this process? If you use the GNOME Panel, take a look at the OpenOffice QuickStarter applet at http://ooqstart.sourceforge.net/. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Give a man a fire and he'll be warm for the night. Light a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] gaim - I did it - here's how :-))
I'd post linux jokes but I'm sure some would just see it as bandwidth waste ;p Hm... new jest? OK... how bout, I just installed Ximian the other day 2 hours later was reinstalling for the second time in 3 days? Now, top that my dear Linux-impaired sister ;) Femme Heather Reed wrote: - Original Message - From: FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 2:57 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] gaim - I did it - here's how :-)) If what you said or do say, wasn't useful, I'm sure many of us wouldn't post in reply to you. :) Besides, useless ppl don't use linux do they? Just a small bit of humour to tide you over till the next hurdle LOL - better get the next jest ready :-))) Thanks for the encouragement! H Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] where are lisarc and rlisarc?
*note to self* Find out what LISA is. Someone care to save me some reading? :) FF Jussi Aalto wrote: On Saturday 09 March 2002 11:31, you wrote: OK - I give up! According to the docs I have read, these may be hidden files (thanks to Femme for that :-)) and should be in home/.kde/share/config but I'm blowed if I can find them. Does this mean that I can therefore simply create my own, or are they likely to be lurking somewhere else? Heather There's no default config file for lisa for obvious reasons.. There's somthing to start with in /usr/share/apps/lisa/README. Have fun! Cheers, J. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Is it Reiser or is it somthing else
I do not know of Ram checkers for Linux but I do know of one for windows. Go to www.simmtester.com for Doc Memory?. Its a little confusing and works from a DOS prompt. But its free I believe and its Time-crippled. Try it, it may help. Femme Hanan Shargi wrote: Thank you shane,, this memory check is it on windows ? I suppose it must be on windows ? since linux is not installed yet if you can give me a hint where is this utility I can go and look for it ( BIOS , DOS ?? ) - Hanan AL-Shargi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cdrom install
I believe supermount if borked in 8.1. Sorry to tell you, and I'm sure Michael will correct me again (as he did with .licq) :) Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, I got Mandrake 8.1 installed, (and what a fun chore that was). It recognizes my CDROMs (1 regular, 1 CDRW) and floppy drive, but when I try to use them to install new packages it just keeps opening the disk tray and asking for the CD. (Yes, I put the CD it asked for in the tray. hahahaha) Any ideas? Please keep in mind I am working in Linux under the K. I. S. S. principle, and that is being kind. If it matters they are supermounted. Thanks, Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Is it Reiser or is it something else ?
On Saturday 09 March 2002 06:42 pm, Hanan Shargi wrote: Hey Tom, That sure was a heavy weight reply ... But that warning on http://users.ev1.net/~redelm/ sure is scary,,, I dont think i wanna go ahead and stress my new system's cpu :) It's sort'a jus'a standard lawyer required disclaimer. He's (Robert) just another hand like you or me. My personal opinion is that low hurdle tests like memtest86 are only useful for checkin a system before _really_ stress testing your hardware. Cpuburn has been a hardware (ie, overclockers) tool for some years now ... highly regarded as the last word, the acid test. So if there's a good time to test a system, the best is when its new. Better sooner than later ; and by the way while I was waiting for replies about my problem I tried installing LM 7.2 and it worked just fine,,, it didn't complain about anything !!! so I guess its not a memory problem after all ?? or could it be that 7.2 was fooled as well ??!! Could be ?? Civileme posted just recently that pushin the hardware too far could be a problem for highly optimized, 'hands on hardware' Linux (to paraphrase). I haven't experienced it, but I respect his opinions. Still, A stock, ready made store bought system, runnin any OS, should be able to pass Cpuburn ... or IMO, the hardware is defective/marginal. OTOH, I find the increasing number of posts here and elsewhere that ML 7.x runs fine, but 8.x won't install/load/work... to be a little troubling. I really think it has more to do with the decreasing quality of current hardware, than the increasing 'tightness' of (Mandrake) Linux. Seems to me M$ has too much influence on proliferating marginal hardware, and not browser monopoly's. If Billy can encourage junk hardware, he's got a captive audience for Windoze. BTW, I've been usin ReiserFS for almost 2 years with -0- problems. The only other j-fs I tried was XFS, and 2 days of it last month with ML 8.2 convinced me to go back to Reiser, lickety split .. Y'allsMMV ;) FWIW, I'm usin Mandrake 8.2 (expect it to go final in a week or so) on max overclocked hardware with zip problems for several months .. Well, there are some, but they usually most always boil down to the interface between my keyboard, mouse, and chair ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]
Search the mailing list archives. There was a thread on this a few weeks ago. Hello, my name is Ilya. Can you tell me where to find AVI-player and RAR-archiver for Linux? As for the other questions I cannot answer them as I'm too green to know :) However, FWIW, i have a dual boot with win2k (an NT kernel). Its not that tough, and is covered in Mandrakes online Docs. repository. http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fdoc.php3 Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Cheers Geeks :)
I dont know if this breaks the listiquitte or not, but I want to make a statement here : Dont you just love it when people get motivated, and you find the same person posting replies for more than one post ?? I mean here we are on a Sat night ...staying in...I mean staying infront of our PC's reading about linux tips and fixes :) It couldnt get geekier I guess ... Chers Geeks :) - Hanan AL-Shargi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Partition Manager
I've been using Partition Manager (Ranish) for about two years and have found it to be an excellent partitioner. It has saved the day for me many times. I've used it to create partitions for a variety of operating systems, format them for those sysems, readjust the sizes, just about anything related to partitions. There seem to be two partitioners with the name Partition Manager, I'm referring to the free one by Ranish. I was wondering how many other people have had any experience with this partitioner or are even aware that it exists. I don't recall Partition Manager ever being mentioned on this list. http://www.ranish.com/part/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kmail question
Thanks! -- Jonathan Dlouhy Saturday, March 09, 2002 11:04:19 PM =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Confucius say: Man who stand on toilet is high on pot. - Original Message - From: s [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 6:15 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Kmail question On Wednesday 06 March 2002 09:35 pm, you wrote: Is there any way of making Kmail check for mail automatically upon starting the program? I don't see a setting anywhere. Is there a setting I missed, or is there maybe some other way of making it do that? Thanks, put -check in the command to start it (either in your menu or link). ex.: kmail -check -caption %c %i %m Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Running Open Office more directly
An alternative to Supermount I found on the Docs section of Mandrakes site: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/admin/amount4.html Sounds like a useful utility. I hope someone wishing to automount things might get some use out of the step-by-step guide. FF Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cheers Geeks :)
sarcasmnow of what you said can be true, as micro$oft will explain, there is no support for linux. :-)/sarcasm cheers back at ya.. On Saturday 09 March 2002 19:11, Hanan Shargi opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: I dont know if this breaks the listiquitte or not, but I want to make a statement here : Dont you just love it when people get motivated, and you find the same person posting replies for more than one post ?? I mean here we are on a Sat night ...staying in...I mean staying infront of our PC's reading about linux tips and fixes :) It couldnt get geekier I guess ... Chers Geeks :) - Hanan AL-Shargi -- Everyone seems so impatient and angry these days. I think it's because so many people use Windows at work. Do you think you'd be Mr. Politeness Man after working on Windows 8 hrs. or more? shane http://shentzu.home.mindspring.com/ Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 http://dmoz.org/ cause humans do it better! Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] MySQL book for Linux
Hi, I'm looking for BASIC MySQL book. Does anyone know which is the easy one? I want the book have some how show me the add-on (or plug-in) GUI.. I want to be able to create MySQL database like MA-Access or Paradox... I'm new at MySQL so just want buy a very easy book to read. Any help is a big thanks Tuan _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] where are lisarc and rlisarc?
On Saturday 09 March 2002 18:09, FemmeFatale opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: *note to self* Find out what LISA is. Someone care to save me some reading? :) have a look at configuration kde network lanbrowsing. lisa is good for browsing your local network, but it has been flakey for me so i usually use komba2 if i wanna tap the local network. rlisa is the same, but for more restrictive or controlled networks. -- Hiroshima '45, Chernobyl '86, Windows '95, Windows '98, Windows 2000! shane http://shentzu.home.mindspring.com/ Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 http://dmoz.org/ cause humans do it better! Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Athalon 1700+ running on Dragon Plus MB
On Thursday 07 March 2002 10:19 pm, you wrote: While the MoBo has settings to allow overclocking, your proc is Multiplier Locked, meaning you cannot change the multiplier without physical changes to the proc. All Athlon class, Pentium III, IV's are this way standard. Celerons and Durons may be able to have the multiplier changed, although I am not sure if they still can. The FSB at 266 is a dual pumped 133, so 233( not that you could run that high without radical cooling on everything, not just the proc) would be 466 dual pumped. Thats what I thought, thanks for the confirmation. -- Gerald Waugh Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Athalon 1700+ running on Dragon Plus MB
On Saturday 09 March 2002 01:10 am, you wrote: Fired up my Dragon Plus w/1900 60G eide drive with 8.2 Beta 4 yesterday. I did almost nothing but watch while Mandrake did it all. Set up my internet connection thru my router, picked monitor, and basically left me with nothing to break. Ho Hum Haven't tried the network with the other three boxes yet though..Maybe still a small chance for the usual frustration. I had a problem with the onboard NIC, I am using a netgear NIC, I had the spare NIC laying around and decided not to fool with the onboard NIC. So I disabled it. What kind of a video card are you using? -- Gerald Waugh Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] For a Disk-on-Key Primer :)
http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/hardware/hbits7.html From the LM 8 docs section! Enjoy! FF Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] seeing windows chapter 2 :-)) (bit for Costin)
maybe not much help, sorry i haven't been following the thread, i myself have never been able to get lisa to work 100%, but what exactly are you using it for? have you tryed komba2 or linneighborhood? i am full of not an answer but an alternative answers lately aren't i? On Saturday 09 March 2002 16:05, Heather Reed opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: Hi all (and hope Costin gets this too :-)) I am half way there, with only one hurdle to go! I have just looged in as root, found the lisa and reslisa config files and configured them -- The only people who like Microsoft are those who don't understand. When people understand what Microsoft is up to, they're outraged. - Tim O'Reilly shane http://shentzu.home.mindspring.com/ Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 http://dmoz.org/ cause humans do it better! Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Voodoo5 How-To for RH 7.x
I think this might work for Man. 8.x. Try reading it. I post this for the persona asking about voodoo 5 cards. http://www.evil3d.net/articles/linux/howto/3dfx/redhat7/ Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Voodoo5 How-To for RH 7.x
How can I chancel this message? - Original Message - From: FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 5:38 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Voodoo5 How-To for RH 7.x I think this might work for Man. 8.x. Try reading it. I post this for the persona asking about voodoo 5 cards. http://www.evil3d.net/articles/linux/howto/3dfx/redhat7/ Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cheers Geeks :)
so true Hanan. *Sigh* I admit it, I'm a pathetic geek with nothing better to do (other than recover from a small operation). Besides, this is very entertaining useful :P I mean I can break a M$ product in oh. 3 days flat... but do I have to actually DO anything? no... just watch it happen. So sitting here learnning to fix things is more fun. *shows off her virtual tattoo of a penguin* :P FF shane wrote: sarcasmnow of what you said can be true, as micro$oft will explain, there is no support for linux. :-)/sarcasm cheers back at ya.. On Saturday 09 March 2002 19:11, Hanan Shargi opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: I dont know if this breaks the listiquitte or not, but I want to make a statement here : Dont you just love it when people get motivated, and you find the same person posting replies for more than one post ?? I mean here we are on a Sat night ...staying in...I mean staying infront of our PC's reading about linux tips and fixes :) It couldnt get geekier I guess ... Chers Geeks :) - Hanan AL-Shargi -- Everyone seems so impatient and angry these days. I think it's because so many people use Windows at work. Do you think you'd be Mr. Politeness Man after working on Windows 8 hrs. or more? shane http://shentzu.home.mindspring.com/ Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 http://dmoz.org/ cause humans do it better! Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Leaving system running
Hi everyone I was wondering how a system should be left running if it is connected to the internet and what is best for the operating system I have a home built box running 8.1 and i leave it at the log in screen for KDE is that a good way to leave the system when not being used Thanks Greg -- Linux The Number one Os __ Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experience the convenience of buying online with Shop@Netscape! http://shopnow.netscape.com/ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Key correspondent to degree celsius characters ]}º
Paul Rodríguez wrote: Please let us know if you find out! I've been using the us-intl keyboard for about a year (for ácçêñts), and I never knew about right alt+shift. Thanks! I'm so psyched! ¡Now I have the exclamation point I've always wanted! Do you know how to get an upside down question mark? - Paul Rodríguez On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 11:12, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Hi, I am using a us-intl keyboard, i would like to be surprized and find out how to put the Celsius circle in my emails. I would assume right alt + shift + ?? = degrees celsius sign. Is there perhaps an internet page that lists all these keyboard shortcuts given your make of keyboard? Appreciated Try 176 for degrees and 191 for inverted question mark. If these work see the HTML character encoding list here http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/entities.html If not (i can't get any working) try the octal equivalents as these are decimal. Michael -- Easiest Color to Solve on a Rubik's Cube: Black. Simply remove all the little colored stickers on the cube. According to the instructions, this means the puzzle is solved. -- Steve Rubenstein Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Leaving system running
On Sun, 10 Mar 2002 02:23:14 -0500 Greg wrote: Hi everyone I was wondering how a system should be left running if it is connected to the internet and what is best for the operating system I have a home built box running 8.1 and i leave it at the log in screen for KDE is that a good way to leave the system when not being used Thanks Greg-- Hi Greg, I have my machine running all the time, logged into X (XFCE). No problem here since there is nobody else in this place but me. Depends on that more than anything else, I think. Do you trust others of they are around? Otherwise I'd also leave the box logged out. Paul -- A day is a span of time no one is wealthy enough to waste. http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.7.4 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Leaving system running
Hi everyone I was wondering how a system should be left running if it is connected to the internet and what is best for the operating system I have a home built box running 8.1 and i leave it at the log in screen for KDE is that a good way to leave the system when not being used Thanks Greg -- Linux The Number one Os HI: I will let my system runnning,but lock the screen if in KDE. ming wu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SB Audigy question
FWIW Jeff, I have an SBLive! and it worked fine on LM8.1. On LM8.0, it works great. Supposedly, the upgrade is worth it...Cleaner signal, and 5.1 digital output. I have a receiver and this is definitely worth it... Maybe 8.3 for out of the box functionality? Brendan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Key correspondent to degree celsius characters ]}º
On Sun, 10 Mar 2002 20:44:13 +1300 Michael wrote: I use the us-int'l keyboard also. I found out this: ° (should show centigrade sign) Alt-Shift 0 making it alt ) ¿ (should show inverted q-mark) Alt-Shift - making it alt _ I used the right-side ALT key for this. Paul Paul Rodríguez wrote: Please let us know if you find out! I've been using the us-intl keyboard for about a year (for ácçêñts), and I never knew about right alt+shift. Thanks! I'm so psyched! ¡Now I have the exclamation point I've always wanted! Do you know how to get an upside down question mark? Try 176 for degrees and 191 for inverted question mark. If these work see the HTML character encoding list here -- A day is a span of time no one is wealthy enough to waste. http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.7.4 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Leaving system running
A non software suggestion. A back up battery for those annoying power outages. Even if you have never experienced one, can't think of a pc user not having one, your better off. --- The differences between Men and Women...are the interesting parts. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wireless Lan card and installation problems
Hi Stephen, One URL to try is as follows: http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/aironet-utils-linux This contains readme files, release notes, and driver files. Cheers, Sebastian From: Stephen Kitchener [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Wireless Lan card and installation problems Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2002 19:24:57 + Hi, I have a Dell Inspiron 8100 and a Cisco 350 Aironet Wireless Lan card, and need to know if anyone has sucessfully installed and used this within Mandrake 8.1. If anyone has URL's or How-to's that are relevent please can they let me know, I would be very greatfull. Thanks. -- Stephen Kitchener Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cdrom install
Nah... you're doin' fine! Michael FemmeFatale wrote: I believe supermount if borked in 8.1. Sorry to tell you, and I'm sure Michael will correct me again (as he did with .licq) :) Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, I got Mandrake 8.1 installed, (and what a fun chore that was). It recognizes my CDROMs (1 regular, 1 CDRW) and floppy drive, but when I try to use them to install new packages it just keeps opening the disk tray and asking for the CD. (Yes, I put the CD it asked for in the tray. hahahaha) Any ideas? Please keep in mind I am working in Linux under the K. I. S. S. principle, and that is being kind. If it matters they are supermounted. Thanks, Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- To add insult to injury. -- Phaedrus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Leaving system running
Greg wrote: Hi everyone I was wondering how a system should be left running if it is connected to the internet and what is best for the operating system I have a home built box running 8.1 and i leave it at the log in screen for KDE is that a good way to leave the system when not being used Thanks Greg -- Linux The Number one Os __ Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experience the convenience of buying online with Shop@Netscape! http://shopnow.netscape.com/ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Thats perfect greg. All the required programs will still run. You could set up something to disconnect you from the net if you choose. Michael -- To add insult to injury. -- Phaedrus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] cd-rw thoughts?
i have decided to upgrade my old and buggy (HP7100i) cd-rw drive. have looked at the yamaha's, sony's, and the plextor's anyone have opinions for best results using LM8.x? i have a preference for the yamaha. one thing always catches me on the spec sheets, it seems that yamaha is almost the only drive out there using 8mb buffers. my current drive (philips in hp-markings) is well known on the net as being a total piece of crap, and i have the coasters to prove it. ;-) so, i don't want to end up with another piece of crap. all the reviews i found, of course, go on about performance in the winblows world. i could care less how well devices perform in billys sandbox. or the software they are bundled with. i am thinking no less than a 20x cd-r, not really too fussy since my current drive is 2x (yes 2x. i have had it for awhile) anyways, if anyone had opinions, or experiences they wanted to sway me towards or away from a particular type. many thanks, moose. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com